Péter Szijjártó: Juncker ‘no longer’ Christian Democrat

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s “lecturing” others about Christian Democracy “is a bad joke”, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Sunday.

Péter Szijjártó insisted that Juncker “has not been a Christian Democrat for a long time and he is in fact a liberal, pro-migration politician”.

“Juncker has laid wreaths on Marx’s monument and commemorated Fidel Castro,” he said. In the meantime, “migrants flooded Europe and the Brits left the EU under his presidency,” the minister added.

Earlier in the day, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag quoted Juncker as saying that the policies of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz were incompatible with Christian Democratic values.

Answering a question why he allowed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “get away with his anti-EU rants”, Juncker said he was locked in a dispute with Orban and he had pressed for Fidesz’s exclusion from the European People’s Party.